Hello, I have read that if you get to many backlinks to quickly that Google's algorithm may view this negatively. If so, is using a directory submission service that blasts your site to multiple directories a bad thing? Thanks diex
Not all directory owners approve your links on the same day.. Some may approve, some may reject, some may never look.. Also not all sites are crawled by google everyday.
Right said Meethere You can read a small article on directory submission services , and see what i have presented.
actually, i do think there is some risk in getting a huge chunk of backlinks overnight especially if your site is new. Of course, then there is also a need to consider the source of these backlinks and whether they are relevant. If the backlinks are all from relevant sites and not from some super-powerful site that makes it obvious u 'BOUGHT' the link purely for backlink purpose, then i think u shld be alright....
Agreed with meethere and he makes some good points... just be careful if its a website and your doing 1000+ submissions as then the more your making the better chances are you get caught in the filter so my suggestion is to do no more then 500 submittions if its brand new in a 3 month stretch. thx malcolm
That's true. But the problem is you won't also know when they will approve. If, for some reason, many directory owners approve in just 2-3 days, and Google crawls more than 50 in a few days, it could raise a red flag. If a submission service controls well, say 10 or 20 everyday on an average appoval ratio, it would be great. I actually consider that when I offer a service
Im not directly disagreeing with anyone on this thread but i personally wouldn't worry too heavily unless it was going into the extremes, like 10,000 backlinks overnight, all with the same Title and Description might be a bit dodgy but thats very, very unlikely. I think if anyone is being sensible about gaining backlinks then not to worry too much, if your playing the game in a sensible way then things should be fairly natural looking anyway to the search engines. I personally would not put a limit on how many directories (for example) that i submit to in a certain space of time, but im not saying that is correct or not, i just feel it is ok as im submitting by hand anyway, but i understand what your asking about directory submission services.
Actually, I meant in the same 2-3 days, not within 2-3 days after the submissions. Sorry for the confusion. My original post wasn't clear about that.
for those that think it will possibly "raise a red flag", what exactly do you think is going to happen?
MeetHere pretty much sums it up. I don't think you have anything to worry about unless you get 1000's of links in a say a couple of weeks, might trigger some spam investigation.
The thing is that nobody knows the threshold and so perfectly decent webmasters worldwide are worrying themelves silly over things that i see as perfectly normal promotion. Dont you think that sometimes webmasters are being caught up in a lot of things that shouldn't be of their concern, its like people fear promoting a new site too hard because something bad may happen. Does that happen in business offline? not as far as im aware, you promote hard, you do it without breaking the law and the results come in. Abiding by a search engines rules is sensible and makes sense, i agree with that , but hiding in the shadows, quite literally fearing what might happen from a search engine is like fearing being bullied. This is business after all, is something bigger going to dictate to you your success and whether or not it will allow you to have it? For as long as people encourage eliteness and a smoke of mystery around search engines then its going to create a lot of nervous web site owners who dont know if their coming or going and worry about things that may not even exist.
Good point. I think a lot of the fuss over Matt Cutts' remarks about paid links has created the same kind of climate of fear. It's as though some webmasters are afraid to promote at all, thanks to what he has said. That was probably his intended effect, because it's in Google's interests to keep all advertising solutions to itself.
Thanks everyone for your comments. Awesome. I think I will just do a couple of hundred at a time and spread them out. Thank again. diex